Tragedy

In the Ted Talk video, speaker Alain de Botton explains his philosophy to success. According to Botton, he stats the insights on failing and success and how tragedy comes into play with it. He starts off the video by talking about anxiety in career crisis and how much its becoming a big deal. He also states that what people thought they knew about living, comes to be a warning of actuality. Almost as if its an expectation versus the reality situation. He says, "One of the reasons why we might be suffering, is we are surrounded by snobs." Due to us having anxiety, we are interacting with people who are in snobbery. Snobbery; as Botton puts it as, is someone who only knows a little about you, would take that information that was given and judge you for who you are entirely. Basically, what ever position you hold, that would be the respect you will receive. For myself, I see this all the time. Everyday at school, there are people who have their cliques, and according to some people, there are people that would be considered "lower than them" or "above them" due to the people they hang out with and from this, it can show how some people treat people a.k.a respect them in the way they present themselves as. Having high hopes in our careers is another sign for anxiety to form. In modern times, humans are considered equal, therefore there can be competition. This can also coincide with envy. Its more so implanted to success than failure. Today in present time we live in a society where an elite group of people think in order to be successful, it is based off of talent and ability also for people to be successful because they earned it, when really that's not the case. Basing success on the meritocratic life style is not fair because what about the people at "the bottom" or the losers? They should be eligible to be there. Its sad labeling the people at the bottom losers just because people don't think they are worth it or what we fail in. De Botton also has said that all heroic figures in tragic works, would be considered to be a loser. Because of this, tragedy is art that shows failing, as sympathy. For example the character Hamlet, is examined as a loser because of the idea of success and failure proceed from other people. We as people need to start thinking of new ways of defining failure and success as De Botton stated.